Media Merger Mania Media Merger Mania
On June 2, the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on whether to relax the rules for owning American news media. Further relaxing of the rules is the absolute ...
May 8, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
Put Families First All Call Day Put Families First All Call Day
More than 1 million low-income Americans have lost or will soon lose government-subsidized healthcare, recent reports estimate, as states slash funding to contain spiraling defic...
May 7, 2003 / Peter Rothberg
The Only Law West of the Tigris The Only Law West of the Tigris
"We have ways to make you talk."
May 6, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer
Blair Misses War Bounce Blair Misses War Bounce
GLASGOW -- The red shirts worn by activists with the Scottish Socialist Party featured the phrase "Axis of Evil," a reference to President Bush's identification of nations that we...
May 6, 2003 / John Nichols
The Unconquerable World The Unconquerable World
Violence, Hannah Arendt said, destroys power. The United States is moving quickly down this path.
May 6, 2003 / Feature / Jonathan Schell
Top Gun at Job Destruction Top Gun at Job Destruction
There's no denying that George Bush knows how to stage patriotic spectacles at sea, but the reality back on shore is not so technicolor pretty. Did you know that Top Gun Bush is ...
May 5, 2003 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
No Dems Break Out in First 2004 Debate No Dems Break Out in First 2004 Debate
When the nine declared Democratic candidates for president gathered together for the first debate of the pre-preseason on Saturday night in South Carolina, ...
May 5, 2003 / David Corn
Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad
Many Russians who fled Brezhnev's USSR because they could not speak freely are in a state of shock in today's America. One is Roman Kaplan, an intellectual from Leningrad (now ...
May 5, 2003 / Feature / Nina Khrushcheva
Musicians Against Media Monopoly Musicians Against Media Monopoly
Don't go looking for the compact discs of country singer Toby Keith and jazz player Ellis Marsalis, Jr., in the same section of a music megastore. Don't expect to find a concert v...
May 4, 2003 / John Nichols